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Quotes About Wealth

See, the poor dream all their lives of getting enough to eat and looking like the rich. And what do the rich dream of?? Losing weight and looking like the poor.
~ Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger
The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.
~ Aristotle
For we, the people, understand that our country cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely make it.
~ Barack Obama
I have enough to last for the rest of my life.
~ Steve Jobs
If you want to create wealth, it is imperative that you believe that you are at the steering wheel of life, especially your financial life.
~ T. Harv Eker
There is nothing wrong in wanting to get rich. The desire for riches is really the desire for a richer, fuller, and more abundant life, and that desire is praise worthy.
~ Wallace D. Wattles
Life is very sweet to me, and there is no position of power or wealth that could tempt me from the throne God has given me.
~ Dwight L. Moody
Any 'Christians' who take for themselves any more than the plain necessaries of life, live in an open habitual denial of the Lord. They have gained riches and hell-fire.
~ John Wesley
There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
~ Jonathan Swift
Global new money has houses everywhere, and serious helicopters, it doesn't aspire to the Miss Marple life of St. Mary Mead.
~ Peter York
Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
Right now my life has an expiration date determined by my bank balance. Can I find something before my time is up?
~ Inio Asano
I don't think it's a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem.
~ Tom Petty
Life is not about what you can accumulate. I learned to live when I learned to give.
~ Anne F. Beiler
When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given.
~ Barbara Sher
You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Money is life to us wretched mortals.
~ Hesiod
But the meaning of life is not . . . explained by one's business life, nor is the deep desire of the human heart answered by a bank account.
~ Carl Jung
If all you succeed in doing in life is getting rich by buying little pieces of paper, it's a failed life. Life is more than being shrewd in wealth accumulation.
~ Charlie Munger
We don't need as much as we have. Hardly any of us need as much money as we have. It's true what they say about the best things in life being free.
~ Donald Miller
I get half a million just to show up at parties. My life is, like, really, really fun.
~ Paris Hilton
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
~ Warren Buffett
Those who have prospered and profited from life's lottery have a moral obligation to share their good fortune.
~ Dick Gephardt
What greater evil could you wish a miser, than long life?
~ Publilius Syrus